I was having is odd issue where a shaded Kotlin jar wasn't finding it's main class. I searched around and found a few solutions, but oddly while the code looked like the solution, it still didn't work... Currently (Kotlin since M14 including up to…
Read moreThis should be the last part for mixing my development work with my model train hobby. Picking up from the last part, I showed how I put together the hardware to run the motor. Now I'll go over the code necessary to make the two Micro:bit's work…
Read moreLast post I explained my fear of burning out as a developer and the fear of ruining even my hobbies by folding in dev work as side projects. In this post we pick up (with excitement) the hardware necessary for the project I settled on. The Parts - A…
Read moreTrying not to Ruin my Hobbies Some days when I come home from a rough day of struggling through a problem, As much as I want to code, I'm tired of it. This terrifies me because I like writing code. I enjoy coming up with solutions to problems. I…
Read moreThe other day I was trying to use the fakeAysnc helpers in Angular to mock api responses from the Google places api. The methods use async await , but the tests kept failing over promises not getting resolved, then because the test couldn't reach…
Read moreNote! This is about directives written in Angular 1.4+ in ES6. In case you were thinking this was covering something new for Angular 2… I’ve (and the team I’m on) have been writing our Angular apps with ES6 for awhile now, and one thing that has…
Read moreOpentype font features give some pretty wonderful options for a more dynamic typeface. I did run into a couple of small problems setting up contextual substitutes for a script font. The o, v, and w in particular created the need for a special…
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